Bulgaria has awarded its best mayors for 11th year in a row
Almost 140 000 people have cast their vote in the national contest for Mayor of the Year
Minister Leonore Gewessler, during a presentation of the project, Source: Minister Leonore Gewessler on Facebook
A look at Austria’s bid to produce all the energy that it uses
Yesterday, environmental authorities in Vienna announced they will construct a pipe connecting a data centre and the Floridsdorf Clinic. The pipe will use waste energy from the data centre to heat the hospital and it can start operating as soon as 2023. The investment is estimated to total out at around 3.5 million euros provided by Austrian federal environmental funding.
The cooperation between the two companies would enable both of them to save on thousands of tons of CO2 emissions yearly while implementing a robust circular energy principle – the data centre will heat water, which will carry the energy to the hospital, where it will disperse, returning cooler water back into the facility.
Austria’s Environment Minister, Leonore Gewessler, emphasised that the project is part of the country’s push to meet energy demand with local production. She pointed out that a good way to do that is by harvesting energy that is already being produced in the country but is subsequently wasted.
The Interxion data centre and the Floridsdorf Clinic are located just a few hundred metres away from each other, which makes a heat exchange project between the two quite feasible. The data centre has 120,000 servers on-site, which generate heat constantly and need to be cooled.
At the same time, the hospital has 90,000 metres of pipes, which bring heat to the premises, and annual hot water consumption of 73,000 cubic metres. Also, the building needs to be heated an average of 150 days per year.
This is a great example of how a circular heat exchange can work. The servers at Interxion will heat the water in the cooling system up to 82 degrees Celsius. Then the water will travel to the Floridsdorf Clinic, where that energy will heat the building in addition to fulfilling hot water needs. Then, after the water temperature drops, the liquid will go back into the data centre.
Austrian environmental authorities estimate that the project will save up to 4,000 tons of carbon emissions per year. At the same time, the data centre will be able to supply 50% to 70% of the hospital’s heat energy needs.
Almost 140 000 people have cast their vote in the national contest for Mayor of the Year
The planned public transit service will be completed somewhere in 2035
Almost 140 000 people have cast their vote in the national contest for Mayor of the Year
The technology differs from maglev in that it allows the usage of already existing infrastructure, with only slight modifications
Floya will be one hell of a helpful tool next time you’re in the Belgian capital
Almost 140 000 people have cast their vote in the national contest for Mayor of the Year
City officials invite residents to meet in person for valuable consultations on greening transformations of their living environment
Almost 140 000 people have cast their vote in the national contest for Mayor of the Year
The main focus of the festivities is a ‘miracle’, which involves the liquefaction of the saint’s blood
Se Poate Association led the training sessions in several cities and engaged over 150 young people
This one could be a real game-changer for our built environments and the way they look
The practical art objects are competing for one of the 2023 New European Bauhaus Prizes
Cast your vote before 24 May and do your part in promoting the NEB values
An interview with a member of the No Hate Speech Network team
A talk with the first man to circumnavigate the globe with a solar plane, on whether sustainability can also be profitable
An interview with the president of the European Federation of Journalists